From: John Wilkin <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:41:05 -0500

Klaus is essentially right about HathiTrust, and I believe that
roughly the same thing is true for Google.  Per guidance from
Michigan's General Counsel, HathiTrust uses a default value of 140
years for countries that use "life + 70" for their term of copyright.
If the author's death date is known (and significant resources are
going into determining death dates for some countries), the actual
death date + 70 is used.   Now, or very soon, HathiTrust will be using
120 years for "life + 50" countries; again, an actual death date
overrides this default value.  All of this applies to users outside of
the US viewing works published outside of the United States, and the
date used (e.g., 1873) changes automatically at the turn of the year.


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:59 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Klaus Graf <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 15:44:19 +0200
>
> Google Books is blocking users outside the US since years if they want
> to use books published after 1872 (in 2013). Of course the same
> restrictions apply at Google Play and as I may add at HathiTrust.
>
> Klaus Graf